Sat. 11/10/18 10:19pm
coelacanth∅:
i just read wikipedia about mandarin duck and it says the male moults after mating. it then looks like the female which looks a lot like the common wood duck. so i wonder if maybe it never disappeared at all, as people are saying, but was camouflaged among the other ducks

Sat. 11/10/18 10:34pm
Franco Twinkie:
We don't have ducks al fresco out here. Peacocks yes, ducks rarely. Most of the ducks in the SGV are glazed and hanging headless in the greasy widow of Sam Woo Barbeque.

Sat. 11/10/18 10:45pm
coelacanth∅:
i've never eaten duck, and it's likely i never will; but there used to be a vegetarian chines restaurant in morristown,nj that had some amazing food. (it's bewildering that they closed shop) my favorite dish there was orange mock duck.

Sat. 11/10/18 10:52pm
Franco Twinkie:
Coel, Some friends of mine always have duck when we go to their house for dinner. My bad luck. When wife makes it fancy french style, I can hardly choke it down. When husband chars it black on the grill because he's to busy talking about some obscure art shit and not paying attention, I can tolerate it.

Sat. 11/10/18 10:56pm
jillydg:
Post coital or not, the Mandarin Duck has been peacefully hangin' with the run-of-a-muck ducks. He does sport a leg band, which is part of the mystery.

Sat. 11/10/18 10:57pm
coelacanth∅:
i've heard that it's greasy. goose even worse,right?
it's funny when we like something more (or tolerate it better) when it's as some would call ruined! when i ate real hot dogs i liked them burnt black. (not that a food snob would have any opinion about that, but...)

Sat. 11/10/18 11:22pm
Franco Twinkie:
Been a dog person like you are Coel. have you ever wondered about the component of canned dog food that is listed as cereal? Are they talking about Wheat Chex and Cheerios? I know you're a label reader, so you probably figured this out a long time ago.

Sat. 11/10/18 11:23pm
Franco Twinkie:
I loved Edwin Collins back in the day.

Sat. 11/10/18 11:29pm
coelacanth∅:
Franco my guess if it just says "cereal" that it's whatever grain they can get cheapest at any given time - which means it's probably mostly corn.
fruit loops are too expensive.

Sat. 11/10/18 11:40pm
Franco Twinkie:
I would give my beagle a bowl of menudo and she would eat all the hominy, but take out the tripe and drop it on the kitchen floor. She hated things that were rubbery or wiggled. She also hated Jello.

Sat. 11/10/18 11:41pm
Dean:
I, too, saw the Screamers more than twice. They were inimitable.

Sat. 11/10/18 11:43pm
JakeGould:
The duck is now supposedly near the turtle pond area near Strawberry Fields and the Museum of Natural History. I know this because I want to see the damned duck!

Sat. 11/10/18 11:43pm
Dean:
Once, I recall, Crime opened for them and The Weirdos. What a show.

Sat. 11/10/18 11:45pm
coelacanth∅:
it's weird,Franco. i've seen dogs do that too. the thing you think they'll go nuts over.
i once gave a dog scraps of sushi -not bad but the ends and bits that were too small for the chef to work with. dog wouldn't eat it.

Sat. 11/10/18 11:47pm
Franco Twinkie:
Dean! It's hard to explain The Screamers to people that never saw them. The surviving acetates and demos, or even videos for that matter don't convey how they could electrify a room. And yes i was at that show too! It was the day befor the forth of July 1978 at the Stardust Ballroom. I remember lot of firecrackers been thrown around.

Sat. 11/10/18 11:47pm
Dean:
Yow, Genesis P-Orridge is featured in the LAT. Leukemia?

Sat. 11/10/18 11:49pm
Dean:
The Screamers did what they wanted to do. They had no punk pretenses, no rock pretenses, certainly no classical or jazz pretenses. They just made an intense, incisive noise, and Tomata served as a most charismatic MC of the noise.

Sat. 11/10/18 11:51pm
Franco Twinkie:
He was a magic man for sure! And a real nice guy too.